02.08.2010
- Air Liquide has announced solid growth in both revenue, up 9.7%, and net profit, up 13.3% versus H1 2009. The company was able to significantly improve its operating margin: up...
02.08.2010
- Chances are, every big pharmaceutical company is running the numbers and weighing the pros and cons of acquiring Genzyme. French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis is poised to make a bid...
29.07.2010
- Turning Point - Business is finally looking up for Clariant; the Swiss-based specialty chemicals company posted an 18% increase in sales in local currencies for Q2 2010 over 2009...
29.07.2010
- In a further improving business environment, BASF has achieved a leap in earnings. The company said its recent portfolio measures are paying off and the earnings strength of the...
29.07.2010
- Belgium's Solvay, seeking acquisitions, rode rising plastics volumes to a 143% jump in quarterly operating profit from its plastics and chemicals units and said it expected...
29.07.2010
- Industrial gas supplier Praxair Inc said on Wednesday that second-quarter profit jumped 24% as sales increased around the world, especially to electronics and metals customers. Net...
28.07.2010
- Hovione announced today that the consolidated sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 amounted to $144 million, representing an increase of 15% over the previous year. During 2009...
27.07.2010
- Biotechnology company Genzyme is weighing an informal takeover approach from France's Sanofi-Aventis, but has no current interest in selling the company, a source familiar with the...
27.07.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis is far more likely to buy Genzyme than GlaxoSmithKline, which already has a presence in rare diseases via a deal with Japan's JCR Pharmaceuticals, industry experts...
26.07.2010
- Huber Engineered Materials (HEM), a division of the J.M. Huber Corporation, announced plans to expand silica production capacity at its manufacturing facility in Jhagadia, India...